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Guide to Livelihoods Approaches

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ELDIS Summaries on Rural Poverty and Livelihoods

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Access to financial, physical and social capital assets is a prerequisite to reduce Nigerian rural poverty
The eradication of poverty in rural Nigeria remains a hard challenge for the country to overcome despite the various poverty eradication programmes ...
Malawian farmers' willingness to allocate funds for input purchase at harvest time
Malawi has implemented a large-scale agricultural input subsidy program since 2005 after a period with severe food shortages and the program has contributed ...
Will the dependency on fuel continue after the privatization of Malawi forests?
The Malawi forestry sector is in the midst of a process which aims to increase private sector participation in plantation forestry. The rationale for ...
Is urban agriculture paying dividends in the fight against hunger in Malawi?
Urban agriculture (UA) can reduce poverty but there is need for more precise analyses on how it contributes to food security. A study in Malawi,revealed ...
Using a livelihoods framework to examine poverty and HIV
This paper reviews the nexus between poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa using a sustainable livelihood framework. Much of the literature on HIV and AIDS has ...